St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-27
{ ATLANTA WENT WET"
The Election Carried by the AMI
ProhibitiGnisis.
MANY WOMEN AT THE POLLS,
The Negroes Turn the Scale In Favor
of tie Licensing OF the
Saloons.

ATLANTA. Ga, Nov. 26.-After the
most heated contest on record in the
state OF Georgia, Atlanta today voted
against prohibition The fight has been
a peculiarly bitter one. For over a
month the citizens have been engaged
in the contest. Meetings have been
held almost every night and local speak
ers and foreign statesmen have Stumped
the county from almost every curb
stone in the city and every cross roads
in the county. Early in the campaign
the prohibitiOnists leased the largest
warehouse in the city and fitted it up
with seating capacity for 5000 people.
Almost nightly the building has been
filled and such scenes of wild enthusl-
assn are rarely witnessed. Almost
every minister in the city preached
prohibition from his pulpit Sunday
after Sunday. Both sides had fun cam
paign funds and managed their respect
i've causes for all they were worth. The
negro vote was the bone of contention
and was the balance of power. Each
side made the most strenuous endeav-
OTIS 10 secure IL i'll CNtlA way DOSSlDlG.
The negroes were considerably divided
on the subject, though majority of
them voted with the AUTHORIZATIONS
ISIS. One of the features of the contest
has been the active part taken by many
women of the city. Several of the
churches organized committees from
among their female members who took
an active part in the campaign.
They organized the women of
the colored churches into SO
cietieS and met with them and
prayed with them day after day. The
result of their work was shown to-day
by the appearance of large numbers of
women at the polls with blue badges.
They served hot coffee and sandwiches
at every polling place and conducted
prayer meetings and singing cruSadeS
in the open air. Fulton county, i'll
which Atlanta is located, voted two
wears ago on the same question and
went for prohibition by majority of
22S out of about 5000 votes. The regis
trati0n this time exceeded that OF last
wear by 1000 votes. The principal fight
made on prohibition during the cam
paign was that it did not prohibit, and
that Intoxicating drinks could be openly
purchased in a number of places
throughout the city which paid taxes
to the nited States government for the
sale of whisky. Thousands of gallons
have been sent in each month from cities
around Atlanta, from which it was
almost as easy to get a jug as it was at
bari in the city. The ants claim that
prohibition injured the city, which was
receiving $4,000 year in whisky Ii
censeS without decreasing i'll the slight
est the amount of whisky sold in the
city. The prOhibitiOniSts on the other
hand claimed that Atlanta has never
had prohibition; that while it was so
voted years ago, the licenses then exist
ing did not expire at some of them, until
almost year ago, and that since that
time the domestic wine clause i'll the
local option bill allowed many places in
the city by which the law could be
easily evaded. This was, however,
remedied by the last legislature which
put license of $4,000 OIL all wine rooms,
which license will go into effect after
Jan. |. The city has gone wet" by
probably LOCO majority. Great enthuS-
iaSm prevails On the streets.
The official vote of the county puts
the anti-prohibitiOn majority 1,l20 out
of total vote of $500. There are six
teen precincts i'll the county. of which
six are in this city. The
ants to-day carried every city
precinct and all but one of
those in the county. In the last cleo
ton two years ago the ProhibitiOnists
carried the county by 500 and the ants
the city by 500, leaving 200 majority for
the PrOhibitiOniStS. This was reversed
to-day by the ants carrying the county
by 800 and the city by 500. The most
intense excitement prevails in the city
tonight. and the ants are jubilant.
The ProhibitionistS cOncede the victory
and accept the result in good humOr.